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India Pulls Back From Iraqi Oil as Hormuz Turns Too Dangerous

energy_supply_shockMiddle EastOilPrice21 Jul, 18:30 UTC

Context

India's biggest state refiners are no longer willing to gamble on the Strait of Hormuz. Indian Oil Corp. and Mangalore Refinery & Petrochemicals have suspended crude loadings from Iraq after a string of attacks on commercial tankers turned the world's most important oil chokepoint into an increasingly expensive and dangerous place to do business. According to Bloomberg, Indian Oil abandoned plans to load the VLCC Lila Jamnagar, concluding that sending a fully laden 2-million-barrel tanker through Hormuz was no longer worth the risk. Mangalore…

What it means

No call: the only market channels here were low-conviction — below our selectivity bar, where the track record shows no reliable edge.

Causal chain

No clear market signal

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the event's market impact, 1–5
Direction
/ likely price move for the asset
Exp. move
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Ssmall<1%
Mmoderate1–5%
Llarge>5%
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Timeframe
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Not investment advice · for informational purposes only. Generated 21 Jul, 18:35 UTC